Bizarre Laws of the UK: Trailer

Join your host Monty Lord as he trawls through the history books and picks apart some of the most bizarre laws ever passed in the UK.

Have you ever heard a bizarre law and thought that can’t possibly be true? Is it genuine? Was it ever in existence or just an urban myth that’s become so embellished over time?

Episode Transcript

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Britain, Britain, Britain, the birthplace of William Shakespeare, the crisp sandwich and the Chuckle Brothers. Over the years we've passed some rather bizarre old laws.
For example,
did you know it is illegal to chase a Morris dancer down the street with a peeled banana?
No I didn't either.
It may not even be true. But all such questions and many more will be answered by someone else, on some other day.

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For now, we'll concern ourselves with the bizarre laws of the
U.K.
So let's give a warm welcome to your host, the multi-award-winning world memory champion, Monty Lord. An interesting fact about Monty is that he holds multiple world records for underwater flower arranging
Hi, I'm Monty Lord and I'm going to be your host throughout this series as we trawl through the history books and pick apart some of the most bizarre laws ever passed in the

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U.K.
For example, is it illegal to own a pet whale but not a tiger?
Is it illegal to cause a nuclear explosion?
Is it illegal to be drunk in a pub?
And most importantly, is Granny Farming illegal?
Until quite recently it was illegal for a woman to encourage a man to marry her by wearing false hair,

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high heels or makeup. Until 2016.
singing happy birthday in public could have been a breach of copyright law.
You could have been sued.
There are surprisingly a great many laws still in existence today that would simply make your jaw drop.
Whilst bizarre as these laws may now seem to us,
It begs the question are we in fact unknowingly breaking these laws on a regular basis?

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All these questions and more will be answered in this podcast show, Bizarre Laws of the UK.